Unequal Exchange

Unequal Development & Underdevelopment

Continuing the “Thought Provokers” series from essential development studies reading, this post covers Samir Amin’s 1976 “Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism.” This work represents some of the earlier writing on ideas of unequal development, inequality and underdevelopment. Plenty of food for thought and discussion: “External equilibrium – international order – is possible […]

Tags: #Peripheral Capitalism #Samir Amin #Underdevelopment #Unequal Development #Unequal Exchange

Thought Provokers Mar 19

About me

Logan Cochrane

Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.

Logan Cochrane